[Bf-education] Version number

[Paolo Ciccone]

Hi John.

Yes, I've seen that page for months now and I don't think that it's clear.
In fact at first I thought there was a typo. In all my years of software
development I worked in teams where we referred to thinks like "JBuilder 3.0
Beta1, Beta2, release".
It kinda makes sense in the overall scheme of the "alpha, beta, gamma"
labeling. The page at Blender.org doesn't state clearly "2.5 is the
development version, the final release will be called 2.6". It lets you
deduce it but I'm sorry, I feel a bit insecure about it, when I think about
burning a few hundred DVDs with possibly the wrong version number on them. I
bet publishers are having the same issue.
I'm not saying that it's unreasonable, heck, I think that all the changes
justify a full jump to 3.0! We just need a "set in stone" decision. :)

--
Paolo Ciccone
www.preta3d.com
www.paolociccone.com



On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:45 PM, John Nyquist <john.nyquist at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was going off of this:
> http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-250/
>
> I understand how it might confuse folks. I remember when Illustrator
> went from 3 to 5 on the Mac platform or when Premiere Elements jumped
> from 4 to 7. Now _that's_ confusing! In light of Adobe's shenanigans,
> I think Blender's approach is reasonable  ;-)
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Tom M <letterrip at gmail.com> wrote:
> > There isn't an official decision on the naming actually.  Personally I
> > feel we should jump to major number systems because the press and
> > public is better equipped to understand that a major number increase
> > is a big feature increase.
> >
> > LetterRip
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